Asia's Transformations

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1. East Asia Beyond the History Wars

   Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

   By Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov, Timothy Y. Tsu

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies,...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Role of American NGOs in China's Modernization

   Invited Influence

   By Norton Wheeler

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   In the waning years of the Cold War, the United States and China began to cautiously engage in cultural, educational, and policy exchanges, which in turn strengthened new security and economic ties. These links have helped shape the most important bilateral relationship in the late-twentieth and...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam

   Property, Power and Values

   Edited by Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Mark Sidel

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   Lively debates around property, access to resources, legal rights, and the protection of livelihoods have unfolded in Vietnam since the economic reforms of 1986. Known as Doi Moi (changing to the new), these have gradually transformed the country from a socialist state to a society in which a...

   Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China

   Red Fire

   By Gene Cooper

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular regime and their activities classified as feudal superstition and this process only intensified during the Cultural Revolution when even the surviving...

   Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. Japan’s Outcaste Abolition

   The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State

   By Noah Y. McCormack

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these status groups through the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, adapting and...

   Published July 19th 2012 by Routledge
6. Mapping Modernity in Shanghai

   Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98

   By Samuel Y. Liang

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Minorities and Education in Multicultural Japan

   An Interactive Perspective

   Edited by Ryoko Tsuneyoshi, Kaori H. Okano, Sarane Boocock

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   This volume examines how Japan’s increasingly multicultural population has impacted on the lives of minority children and their peers at school, and how schools are responding to this trend in terms of providing minority children with opportunities and preparing them for the adult society. The...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
8. Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities

   Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics

   Edited by Jing Bao Nie, Nanyan Guo, Mark Selden, Arthur Kleinman

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these “factories of death,” including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on...

   Published May 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism

   Spectacle, Politics and History

   By Hong Kal

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive...

   Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
10. Girl Reading Girl in Japan

    Edited by Tomoko Aoyama, Barbara Hartley

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    Girl Reading Girl provides the first overview of the cultural significance of girls and reading in modern and contemporary Japan with emphasis on the processes involved when girls read about other girls. The collection examines the reading practices of real life girls from differing social...

    Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge